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Subject: Re: Opteron vs. XP

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 17:51:58 06/30/03

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On June 29, 2003 at 16:57:02, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On June 29, 2003 at 16:08:02, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>
>>>Measuring specint for a new chip using a compiler that in effect cripples it, is
>>>not only incompetent, it's misleading, IMO.
>>
>>If it's incompetent to use a compiler that makes faster binaries than another
>>compiler, then I think you can call everyone incompetent.
>
>Well yes, it is.
>
>If Carl Lewis has a broken leg, we should postpone the race until he is back in
>shape, anything else will just be a race with a broken leg.
>
>It is however amazing how fast the chip is running, even with it being on
>crutches.
>
>-S.

It is not on crutches. The x86-64 ISA is more or less the same as the x86-32
ISA.

-Tom



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